Evidence Exchange of LGBT Statistics

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The respondents overwhelmingly answered that they had been subject to verbal abuse (70.4%) when suffering from hate crime. This evidences the previous anecdotal accounts, and shows the link of hate crime to incidents of anti-social behaviour or the so-called “low level” abuse suffered by victims of trans hate crime.

"...all hate crime is vastly under reported with the last crime survey for England & Wales estimating that there are 222,000 hate crimes committed every year. With only 52,528 hate crimes recorded by the police in the last hate crime return for 2014/2015 this demonstrates a vast disparity in figures".

20% of respondents had self-medicated, while 15% of respondents chose not to say
whether they had self-medicated or not. Of those respondents who had self-medicated,
72.7% reported a positive experience of self-medicating, while 27.3% of
respondents reported a mixed experience. Not one respondent who disclosed
that they had self-medicated reported a negative experience.

71.8% of respondents presented as binary in order to access treatment from private
clinics, compared with 46.4% presenting as binary within NHS gender identity clinics.
Of those who were out as non-binary within the NHS, 15.6% people reported mainly
positive experiences, 25% mixed, and 59.4% mainly negative. Of those who were
out as non-binary within private services, 60% reported mainly positively
experiences, with 20% having mixed experiences, and 20% mainly negative.

Less than 2% of participants listed fear of regret as a significant concern, which
concurs with the Trans Mental Health Study’s findings that very few trans people
regret the physical changes undergone as part of transition.

Participants fear of being denied treatment due to their non-binary identity is
perhaps the most striking theme within the dataset, with all of the participants
from the follow-up interviews discussing this fear in depth. This concern led to a
significant number of participants presenting as binary in order to receive treatment.
This concern was higher for people who were undergoing private treatment, with
71.8% of respondents presenting as binary in order to access treatment, compared
with 46.4% presenting as binary within NHS gender identity clinics.

53.7% of non-binary respondents have tried to access or are currently trying to
access transition related healthcare from a healthcare provider, with 46.7% having
never tried to access transition related healthcare yet.

35% of trans people attempt
suicide at least once, with 25% of trans people attempting again. We know that
suicide attempts are more likely before transition (63%), and during transition (7%),
than after transition (3%). To compare, various self-report studies place the
proportion of the general population who have made a suicide attempt between 1-
4%.